I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Los Altos. What else do you think L.A. Chung stands for?
My first Los Altos event was walking in the Pet Parade in 1962 with my Collie, Laddie. We all went down to the pancake breakfast at Rancho after that. I remember riding my bicycle on Interstate 280 the day before it opened to the public and passing under it to ride up to Maryknoll, before it was a retirement home for priests.
My elementary school was close enough to walk to, and is now Grant Park and community center. I learned how to swim at Los Altos Covington Pool and Los Altos High School in the summers. I learned to ride from Herman Koopmans, following him from Los Altos Hills to Portola Valley.
I've been in journalism since 1980, when I participated in the Maynard Institute's Summer Program for Minority Journalists. I've been a reporter for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut and the San Francisco Chronicle. During a 12-year career at the San Jose Mercury News, I was an editor supervising reporters in community news, weekend breaking news and business. I had a column through which I wrote about local events, the travails of ordinary people fighting City Hall, and the intersection of race, culture and public policy.
Since leaving the Mercury News, I've worked on the Chauncey Bailey Project, the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism and done research Hewlett Foundation projects.
In the old days, once I told people my name, I'd have to quickly add— "No relation to Connie." But no one knows who she is, anymore.
My Beliefs
Always say "Please" and "Thank you." It goes a long way toward making life more civil. Play nicely. Stand your ground if you believe you're right. Admit when you're wrong.
Politics
I believe in sanity, and in public officials striving to do the right thing for the greater good.
I vote in each and every election, and have, at different times in my life, been registered as a Democrat, Independent and Republican.
Religion
My mother raised me at the Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church. It's the closest thing to "my" church, even if I don't attend.
Local Hot-Button Issues
Los Altos elementary schools are the top in the state. But maintaining school standards during a very sluggish economic recovery period, with limited and unreliable state funds, will be difficult this year and in the coming years. It will require the school community to reach out to the broader community and make the case for donations and perhaps taxes.
Downtown economic vitality is a deep concern.
The comet named after the array of cameras and telescopes on Mount Haleakala on Maui may sport a very cool dust tail, says NASA, and it's one the first of two comets expected over the Northern Hemisphere in 2013.
The Daily 3 results are 3, 5 and 5. For the Daily Derby and Fantasy 5, read below.
The comet named after the array of cameras and telescopes on Mount Haleakala on Maui may sport a very cool dust tail, says NASA, and it's one the first of two comets expected over the Northern Hemisphere in 2013.
Helicopter drones, 3-D printers, tensile testers and micro-indenter hardness testers are part of the physics lab at the new Physical Science and Engineering Center, which held its open house Feb. 26, 2013.
The freezing cold 1960s-era labs with ventilation that sucked the heat up with the fumes are a thing of the past. In its place, a center that inspires collaboration and learning, supported by its LEED Silver-designed facilities.
Foothill College student Charles Morrin was our guide in one part of the physics lab at the school's new Physical Science and Engineering Center, which held its open house Feb. 26, 2013.
The large crowd expected has prompted organizers to move the officers' Thursday memorial to San Jose in the only venue large enough to hold the event. A two-mile-long motorcade on Highway 17 will precede it.
Patch has posted an update with the timeline for the sale process. Los Altos School District did not qualify to purchase former elementary school in the first round of the process but may in the second round.
Eight students have been named on the Dean's List or Honor Rolls of their universities.
Responding by the March 1 deadline, Bullis Charter School stakes out its position, and proposes a new parking lot, new blacktop and taking over the Stepping Stones Preschool space.
The freezing cold 1960s-era labs with ventilation that sucked the heat up with the fumes are a thing of the past. In its place, a center that inspires collaboration and learning, supported by its LEED Silver-designed facilities.
The Daily 3 results are 1, 3 and 7. For Daily Derby and Fantasy 5, read below.
The numbers speak for themselves; sales of EVs show healthy growth rate.
Thomas Rhodes was taken into custody in Modesto; two of the five robberies occurred in January and February at Cupertino banks.
The Daily 3 results ae 9, 2 and 5. For Daily Derby and Fantasy 5, read below.
The freezing cold 1960s-era labs with ventilation that sucked the heat up with the fumes are a thing of the past. In its place, a center that inspires collaboration and learning, supported by its LEED Silver-designed facilities.
The Los Altos Police log for Feb. 26 shows a car dented while parked at home, a window suddenly shattered, and planter boxes containing flowers stolen. All mysteries in a day of the life of Los Altos.
Photo buffs, please share: Cupertino Patch is continuing its "Spot the Station" alerts as the International Space Station crosses our local skies. We'll continue posting each day there are alerts.
No telescope is necessary--just look in the right direction.
Photo buffs, please share: Patch is continuing its "Spot the Station" alerts as the International Space Station crosses our local skies.